A recent announcement over at Adobe Labs delivered the deeply disappointing news that the team working on native 64-bit versions of the bloated, creaking memory-hog Flash Player had given up after literally several tries.

Apparently oblivious to the fact that the whole world is keen to shake off the shackles of 32-bit mediocrity, they’ve stopped all development of the 64-bit versions of their increasingly irrelevant resource consumer until some unspecified future date.

As if the world needed any further reminder of the overwhelming reasons for replacing this ageing monstrosity.